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Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on 19 April 2021, demonstrating that flight is possible in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and becoming the first aircraft to conduct a powered and controlled extra-terrestrial flight.
The NASA helicopter Ingenuity on Mars made the first powered controlled flights by an aircraft on a planet other than Earth. [1] [2] It first flew on April 19, 2021, after landing on February 18 attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover. [3] Ingenuity weighs 1.8 kilograms (4.0 lb) and is
After completing 72 historic flights on Mars over three years, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to operate ...
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.
Mars 2020 is a NASA mission that includes the rover Perseverance, the now-retired small robotic helicopter Ingenuity, and associated delivery systems, as part of the Mars Exploration Program. Mars 2020 was launched on an Atlas V rocket at 11:50:01 UTC on July 30, 2020, [ 4 ] and landed in the Martian crater Jezero on February 18, 2021, with ...
Ingenuity: 3 April 2021 (deployment) 2 years 340 days 17.242 km (10.714 mi) in 72 flights [14] The Ingenuity helicopter is the first aircraft to fly on an extraterrestrial body. Tianwen-1: Zhurong: CNSA: 14 May 2021: 356 days: 1.921 km (1.194 mi) as of 1 May 2022 [15]
The Crater Rim Campaign is the fifth, currently ongoing science campaign, and the first new science campaign since the loss of the Ingenuity helicopter. It is expected to last until the end of 2024, and will include a total elevation change of over 1000 feet (~300 meters).
Chief Engineer for Ingenuity helicopter, which made the first extraterrestrial powered, controlled flight on April 19, 2021: Awards: John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr. Award for Space Exploration from the Space Foundation. [1] Scientific career: Fields: Computer and Systems Engineering, space science: Institutions: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory